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Comment · 3 years ago
First time I hear about oil shell. Funny name, but that aside, I have a hard time taking a shell seriously that started out written in python. They describe it as having "python-like types", interesting. And they say it's a shell targeted at people who "write scripts, which may get into the hundreds or even thousands of lines" rather than end-users. If you write complex scripts, please use a proper language. Also, I've been writing "complex" bash scripts since ages, and of course it can be somewhat annoying with bash's quirks. But it runs almost everywhere without extra dependencies, which is the main reason I use it. If I had to install oil on all machines running my scripts, why wouldn't I go ahead and use rather go and distribute binaries? Well, my guess is this will never catch on.
Comment · 3 years ago
(sarcastic take on the article) Well, thank god it can only be used for Russian or Chinese disinformation. We just need to ban anything Russian or Chinese and we are safe! Do avoid mass outrage among our own western population, we can facilitate tools like ChatGPT to make it appear there's a broad consensus among the population for these measures, and to automatically attack all criticism with consistent talking points. Democracy is saved!
Comment · 3 years ago
I keep seeing artist use acrylic paint, such a blatant rip off of long established art styles. This has to stop.

EDIT: let me take this opportunity to also point out how better copyright enforcement could have saved us from the likes of this fraud Picasso, who just ripped off the style of Braque

Comment · 3 years ago
Sorry, I did not check the repo itself, I don't think I even have a cvs client anymore. On the linked page there's a section prominently placed, titled "Latest News". If you check there, the latest of such news is titled "A first Lush 2.0 beta is out!" with a date of 2009-10-19.
Comment · 3 years ago
latest update appears from 2009? Including instructions on how to fetch from cvs? Makes me a bit nostalgic, but not sure if this is relevant anymore
Comment · 3 years ago
Hm, that was the whole point of my argument I believe. That this is an inherent left-leaning position, regardless of who is subscribing to it; possibly because in the discussion on how to handle such healthcare, it defends the social and idealistic dimension ("left") rather than the self-responsible and pessimistic perspective ("right"). Now we can argue about political relativism and that no position is inherently and objectively "left" or "right" and it only depends on who articulates that position - and as you might have guessed this is an idea that I am slightly opposed to. Of course we can start with the Overton window and shifting beliefs and the possibility than in a century from now on, universal healthcare might be considered, for whatever reason, a hardcore right-wing extremist position.
Comment · 3 years ago
Typically, if there is no majority in opposition of a position, it is typically referred to as "consensus". I do not understand your argument. Germany has a left-leaning position on health care, historically introduced and defended by left-aligned parties but generally accepted across the spectrum. Just because the far right does not want to abolish socialized health care does not make it a center position, at least that is the argument I am trying to make
Comment · 3 years ago
So a consensus position is by definition center? So (democratic) countries can't lean to either side of the spectrum because by definition their positions are supported by the majority, and thus a center position?
Comment · 3 years ago
Can you give me an example of such a position? I would argue that, for example, social programs in Europe are more popular, but still following a left-leaning position that is just more broadly accepted
Comment · 3 years ago
I'm not sure I understand. Are you saying that the same positions would count as "center" in Europe while "left" in the US? And what would be an example of a "large hierarchical structure" without a clear "outside"?
Comment · 3 years ago
What a weird argument. I guess you also don't use encryption ever because authoritarian governments can just extort the keys from you. Somehow I doubt you grew up in an USSR country or ever cared about the life back then in more detail
Comment · 3 years ago
Encouraging children to read is not a crime and nobody ever claimed that it was, will be, or should be.
Comment · 3 years ago
This page states it was introduced with 1.7, which was released a long time ago (maybe 2 years?) and it's still in prototype stage since. I have never used it since then, and given how bad the less popular parts of PyTorch tend to be, I'd be reluctant to even trying. Quickly checking I see some active development going on there still, however. I guess mostly to get stuff on Android
Comment · 3 years ago
Almost more interesting in that article I found that Sama, the Kenyan company, was also asked to collect CP and brutal/gore images for OpenAI. After delivering 1400 images, Sama cancelled the contract as this was even too much for them. OpenAI then talked about "miscommunication" and they actually did not really want those CP images. Well, they made its own category for it and asked Sama to collect images of several other categories, but somehow it was lost in communication that for one of theses categories, no images should be collected. Because they are illegal. OpenAI swears they never opened the images they received (and paid for).
Comment · 3 years ago
none of your business what dark web cookie recipe websites I maintain

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